Baba Ka Dhabha Last fortnight a video depicting the plight of an elderly couple who used to scrape a living by running a wayside Dhabha at Malviya Nagar had gone viral on Whatsapp. It showed how badly the lockdown had effected their business. The poor couple had run out of all their savings in the…

This article is circulating on the Whatsapp. It is said to have been written by some ex- IPS officer and it may have been written by him/her but perhaps the author wants to remain anonymous. As the post is good, we thought of sharing it here. Former IPS Officer says:- I was so upbeat when…

(pic) Lulu Global Mall, Rajajinagar, Bengaluru. Image is a download from internet. My dad used to work as DGM at what used to be ‘Minerva Mills’ and ‘Raja Mills’ more than half century back.  A giant Lulu Global Mall has come up now in the Minerva Mills compound. My dad had been awarded a full…

लेखक: राजगुरू द. आगरकर अनुवाद: आ. चारुमति रामदास   गॉडफ्रे और रॉटरे खुश थे। इंग्लैंड से जो हवाई जहाज़ मँगवाए थे वे हिन्दुस्तान पहुँच गए थे। HMIS ग्लास्गो एक–दो दिनों में पहुँचने वाला था। गॉडफ्रे द्वारा दी गई अन्तिम निर्णायक चेतावनी के बाद सैनिक शान्त थे। इसका मतलब उन्होंने यह लगाया कि सैनिक डर गए…

Speaking from her home in Colorado, Gitanjali Rao told interviewer/actor Angelina Jolie that she wanted to research carbon nanotube sensor technology at the Denver Water quality research lab when she was only 10.  Over 5000 kids, from ages 8 to 16 in America, competed to be TIME KID OF 2020. Sky is the limit for…

Nations are like individuals. Success and failures carry them like roller coaster rides do. Some of it results from statistical events while some of it results from one’s own making.  No one can always be successful, nor can be immune from the downswings of life. Three science and technology examples from recent times have caught…

लेखिका: वेरा पनोवा अनुवाद: आ. चारुमति रामदास झेन्का   झेन्का – अनाथ है, अपनी मौसी और बहन के साथ रहता है. बहन – उसकी सगी बहन नहीं है – मौसी की बेटी है. दिन में वह काम पर जाती है, और शाम को इस्त्री करती है. वह अपने ड्रेस इस्त्री करती है. आँगन में बड़ी…

लेखिका: वेरा पनोवा अनुवाद: आ. चारुमति रामदास   प्रस्थान से पूर्व की रात   कुछ अनजान आदमी आए, डाईनिंग हॉल और मम्मा के कमरे का फ़र्नीचर हटाया और उसे टाट में बांध दिया. मम्मा ने परदे और लैम्प के कवर हटाए, और दीवारों से तस्वीरें निकालीं. और कमरे में सब कुछ बड़ा बिखरा बिखरा, बेतरतीब…

The Fateful Eggs: A Lesson for Posterity A. Charumati Ramdas     “Manuscripts don’t burn”, says one of the characters in M. Bulgakov’s novel “Master and Margarita”. That refers not only to the physical existence of the manuscripts, but the matter contained in them – their content, their soul. So far as Bulgakov’s works are…